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ELA 10 A Seminar

PRP 02
2014-2015

ELA 10 A Seminar
There are DAILY attendance points.
Students should make EVERY attempt
to be in attendance consistently.
There are DAILY assignments.
Students should expect to turn in
SOMETHING class related every day.
 Day 1 T 9/23

LT: Review post-WWII
policital views
Discuss McCarthyism
CCSS:R#1
Strategy:Marzano#1
Activity:
  • Pre-Test
  • Discuss course expectations
  • Review McCarthyism
  • Discuss social issues
Assign:
  • Do The Crucible Anticipation Guide Pt1 & Pt2
  • Read on McCarthyism
  • Read on Political Cartoons
  • Begin Social Issues Essay DRAFT--DUE FRIDAY
 Day 2 W 9/24

LT:Examine themes in The Crucible
Differentiate various elements of political systems
CCSS:R#2, W#1
Strategy:Marzano #8, #2
Activity:
  • Compare/Contrast Communism and Democracy
  • Read Frost's "The Road Not Taken"
  • Discuss themes
  • Compare/Contrast with other texts
  • Listen to the audio of "Outside a Small Circle of Friends"
  • Discuss the parable of The Good Samaritan
Assign:
  • Begin Social Issues Essay DRAFT
  • Read the "Parable of the Good Samaritan"
  • Answer Good Samaritan Questions
  • Frost questions
 Day 3 Th 9/25

LT:Predict outcomes
CCSS:R#3
Strategy:Marzano#8
Activity:
  • Discuss possible outcomes
  • Begin viewing The Crucible
Assign:
  • Read "The Dying Girl No One Helped"
  • Read "Outside a Small Circle of Friends"
 Day 4 F 9/26

LT:Reflect on discrimination in texts
CCSS:R#9
Strategy:Marzano #1
Activity:
  • Continue viewing The Crucible

Assign:
  • Continue Crucible Study Guide
  • Crucible Anticipation Guide Part III
  • Crucible Anticipation Guide Part IV Essay
  • Crucible TEST
Day 5 M 9/29

LT:Discuss themes in literature
CCSS: L#4
Strategy:Marzano #4
Activity:
  • Conclude viewing The Crucible
  • Read "Half-Hanged Mary"
Assign:
  • Crucible Anticipation Guide Part III After statements
  • Crucible Anticipation Guide Part IV Essay
  • Crucible Questions
  • Pre-Assessment Paragraphs
  • Huck Finn Anticipation Guide Part I Before statements
  • Huck Finn Anticipation Guide Part II Essay
 Day 6 T 9/30

LT:Examine dialect in written text
CCSS:L#3
Strategy:Marzano #1
Activity:
  • Begin viewing Huck Finn
  • Identify similarities of dialects
  • Listen to popular songs of the time
Assign:
  • Worksheet on Dialect and Nonstandard English
  • Define Vocabulary terms
 Day 7 W 10/01

LT:Predict Outcomes
CCSS:S&L#3
Strategy:Marzano #3
Activity:
  • Review Vocabulary terms and dialect elements
  • Conclude viewing Huck Finn
  • Review Social Issues Essay Drafts
  • Discuss revisions
Assign:
  • Huck Finn Anticipation Guide Part III After statements
  • Huck Finn Anticipation Guide Part IV Essay
  • Continue Social Issues Essay
 Day 8 Th 10/02

LT: Discuss Social issues (racism, prejudice, etc.)
CCSS:S&L#3
Strategy:Marzano #2
Activity:
  • Differentiate among various forms of prejudice
  • Review Op Ed pieces
Assign:
  • DRAFT Op Ed piece on an ISM
 Day 9 F 10/03

LT:Examine op ed pieces
CCSS:S&L#1
Strategy:Marzano #6
Activity:
  • Discuss claims, evidence and warrants
  • Class participation in identifying claims, evidence and warrants
Assign:
  • Social Issues Essay FINAL (Due Friday, May 16)
Day 10 M 10/06

LT:Compare/contrast racial viewpoints in poetry
CCSS:W#8
Strategy:Marzano #2
Activity:
  • Read "Is Huck Finn a Racist Book?"
  • Read Countee Cullen poems
  • Read Langston Hughes poems
  • Discuss Revision re: Op ed pieces
Assign:
  • Do Countee Cullen worksheets
  • Do Langston Hughes worksheets
  • Revise Op Ed pieces
 Day 11 T 10/07

Luncheon at Eagles in Big Rapids

 Day 12 W 10/08


LT:Review argument writing
CCSS:W#4
Strategy:Marzano#4
Activity:
  • Cullen TEST
  • Hughes TEST
  • Discuss revision and editing
  • Discuss Proofreading
Assign:
  • Revise Social Issues Essays
  • Work on Op Ed pieces
 Day 13 Th 10/09

LT:Proofread writing
CCSS:W#6
Strategy:Marzano
Activity:
  • Discuss characters and themes presented over the course
Assign:
  • Revise and edit Social Issues Essay
  • Revise and edit Op Ed Piece
 Day 14 F 10/10

LT:Review course objectives
CCSS:R#9
Strategy:Marzano #2
Activity:
  • Post-Test
  • Surveys